Federal Security Measures: Impact on Brussels and Surrounding Municipalities – Insights from Vooruit Mayor Hans Bonte

2023-10-22 17:29:00

“New federal security measures are the result of a fight for political survival“, declared Vooruit Mayor of Vilvoorde, Hans Bonte, in reaction to the measures announced by the De Croo government.

The mayor of Vilvoorde and president of the Toekomstforum (editor’s note: forum of the future) Halle-Vilvoorde, a security cooperation between the 33 peripheral municipalities of Brussels, fears that these measures will lead to an exodus from the periphery to occupy Brussels posts to be provided to the public prosecutor’s office, the PJ and the railway police. Hans Bonte called for the reinstatement of the Federal Canal Plan which was launched in the followingmath of the 2016 attacks.

In a critical note, Hans Bonte says he is convinced that structural solutions to the security problem in Brussels and Belgium have not been sought effectively. According to him, it is not enough to strengthen the ranks of the public prosecutor’s office and the police in Brussels. Outside the city too, the police are understaffed at all levels. Hans Bonte fears that recruitment in Brussels will worsen the lack of personnel in surrounding municipalities and police zones. “The essential problem, the Kafkaesque procedure for selecting and recruiting new police officers, remains unsolved for all municipalities“, he believes.

He insists on a unified Brussels police zone to fight once morest “administrative chaos“and ensure a more efficient flow of information between federal information services and the local level.”Until today, neither local administrations nor local police zones receive an overview of people who have been ordered to leave the territory and who have been subject to administrative detention. However, local services are supposed to enforce the law“, said Hans Bonte once more.

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